brainstorms

Friday June 03, 2005

logos for languages: cplusplus

c++ and i go back a long way. we had licensed and used the early ctrans version at york university around 89 or 90; i liked that early version, but came to dislike the ARM and the inevitable b-movie monster standards that followed. over the years, i designed a number of c++ logos that reflect my [less than complimentary] view of the language; these days that view [when i look at it at all] is best summarized by this logo.

[to be sure, c++ was not the only programming language targetted by my comic logos; i will post others as i render them. perl is/was a particularly rich target, as it is so easy to poke fun at its postmodern pseudo-lingual nuttiness...]

related reading: stroustrup, the design and evolution of C++, 1994. a must have book for programming language designers. it is not often one finds such a through review of design decisions.